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Date of source: Thursday, September 23, 2010
Nabeeh El-Wahsh filed an injunction to Pope Shenouda III requesting that the Pope remove Bishop Bishoy and Father Abdel Maseeh Baseet from their positions for making statements that could potentially cause sectarian strife. Demonstrations were held outside the Lawyers' Syndicate yesterday...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 22, 2010
The Young Copts for Egypt Foundation is planning a demonstration to take place tomorrow outside the Abbasia Cathedral, supporting the Pope and church leaders. In its official newspaper, Nidaa Al-Watan, the Church expressed its disdain for actions threatening national unity and called Dr. El-Awa's...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 21, 2010
In an interview on the television program Manshette, the Pope denied claims of the Church being a "state within a state" calling it a "provoking" allegation and said that he prays for the forgiveness of anyone attacking his person during the Kamilia crisis. He said that all three Churches approve...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 21, 2010
El-Awa denied the allegations attributed to him in the media against the church. He says anyone attacking him for comments made in the interview with Al-Jazeera has not seen the original interview and that he chose his words carefully while talking about the Church. He added that Israel is behind...
Date of source: Sunday, September 19, 2010
In response to Selim El-Awa's allegations, Bishop Basanty said that all monasteries are open to the public. He also said that Bishop Bishoy's claims of Muslims initially being visitors in Egypt are historically accurate and were meant in a peaceful manner. He said that Kamilia Shehata and Wafaa...
Date of source: Friday, September 17, 2010
In his weekly sermon, Pope Shenouda III said that smoking is prohibited in Christianity, stressed the importance of clergymen to take care of their parishes, and pointed out that a woman becomes part of her husband's family upon marriage thereby making marriage to his brother after the husband’s...
Date of source: Thursday, September 16, 2010
Ameera says that she finds it strange that two different groups of people praying at two different mosques would decide to perform demonstrations about a woman, whose conversion to Islam hasn't even been proven, at the exact same time. She also finds it strange that after the woman released a video...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Head of the Egyptian Union Organization for Human Rights, Naguib Gabraeel, requested the Attorney General prohibit the publishing of stories related to Kamilia Shehata, as they only serve to heighten sectarian tension between Muslims and Christians, which will put national unity at stake. He also...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 15, 2010
A group of activists are organizing demonstrations to take place outside Al-Said Al-Badawy Mosque next Friday to demand that the "real" Kamilia Shehata appear in public, as opposed to the look-alike who appeared in the video that was broadcast on National Television. Priest Saleeb Matta Sawiris...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Priest Abdel Messih Baseet called the news of Kamilia's upcoming appearance on television a mere speculation based on the Pope's interview with Al-Ahram newspaper. On the other hand, Hany Aziz assured Amr Adeeb that Kamilia would definitely appear on television starting with the Al-Yawm channel...
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Emerging Perspectives on Intercultural and Interreligious Relations
Dialogue Across Borders is a database of summary translations of Arabic newspaper articles with references to their sources about intercultural and interreligious relations, focusing primarily but not exclusively on Muslim-Christian relations. The database also contains articles with editorial analysis and interviews on the subject.